This was not Churchill, not FDR, and not JFK on the night of January 10, and there was not quite enough about winning and victory—but the content was still good enough.
Many of us were skeptical of a surge/bump/increase for an obvious reason: Our military problems in Iraq have been tactical and strategic (too slow training of too few Iraqis, arrest/release of terrorists, too many targets off-limits, patrolling in lieu of attacking, worry over our own force protection rather than securing the safety of Iraqi citizens, open borders with Syria and Iran, and so forth)—not a shortage of manpower.
